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Greeters make donations to help alleviate hunger

Ruidoso News

Posted:
06/12/2014 03:23:08 PM MDT

The Ruidoso Valley Greeters recently presented Food 4 Kids Backpack Program a donation of 2,000. Accepting the check is Elizabeth and Frank Potter. The Food 4 Kids Backpack Program provides children a backpack filled with nutritious food to be taken home on the weekends and holidays when school meals are not available. (Courtesy)

The Ruidoso Valley Greeters recently made donations to the Roadrunner Food Bank and Food 4 Kids Backpack Program. Roadrunner Food Bank provides food to partners, like food pantries and directly to hungry people through programs such as the mobile food pantry. Roadrunner seeks to alleviate hunger in New Mexico. The Greeters' criteria for donations this year has been feeding the hungry in Lincoln County and a total of $9,000 has been given to Food 4 Kids, Roadrunner and Lincoln County Food Bank. Since the Food 4 Kids Backpack Program began in April, 2010, 11,089 servings of food have been delivered to hungry children. Food 4 Kids Backpack Program partners with the Angus Church of the Nazarene and is funded 100 percent through donations of food and money.

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Tabathia Bennett, Lincoln County manager of Community Programs for Roadrunner Food Bank, accepts a donation of 2,000 from K'Aun Kingsley, president of the Ruidoso Valley Greeters.

A dedicated group of volunteers collect, pack and redistribute backpacks weekly.

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